Improvement in feed-boxes



FEED-BOX.

Patented May 9, 1876.

N- PETERS, FHOTO-LITHUGRAPHER, WASNINGTON O C UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE:

WILLIAM M. WALTON AND JOSEPH J. WALTON, OF YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN FEED-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 177,178, dated May9,1876; application filed April 19, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WM. M. WALTON and JOSEPH J. WALTON, of New York, inthe county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain newand useful In provements in Army Feed-Boxes and we do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis specification.

The nature of our invention consists in the construction of feed-boxesfor army use, and in the method of applying or suspending the same, aswill be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawing, Figure l is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a planview, showing a series of boxes strung together; and Fig. 3 shows a sideelevation of a number of boxes nested together for transportation.

Our feed-box may be made of light sheetmetal, canvas, or other suitablemateral, but canvas will probably be the most preferable; and it is madein oblong form, with slightlyflaring sides A A and a curved bottom, B,which allows of their being packed closely into each other fortransportation.

From each corner of the box A B at the'top projects a horizontal eye, a,as shown, on a diagonal line across the box.

These boxes are intended to be strung upon ordinary picket-lines G O bypassing said lines through the eyes a a, and staking down the ends ofthe lines at any desired height from the ground. The feed-boxes willthen be suspended from the lines, and cannot slip back and forth thereonon accountof the bends in the lines where they pass through the'eyes a,which eyes bind on the lines and prevent such movement. g

In place of the eyes a we may use hooks 12, extending on line with thesides of the box, and having their openings on the under side. This is,perhaps, preferable to the eyes, as the boxes can then be attached anddetached at will without disturbing the picket-lines, whereas withthe'eyes one end of each line must be loosened and drawn through theeyes.

This invention is very simple and cheap, can be applied or put up foruse in very short time, and takes up but little room in trans-.portation.

Having thus fully described our invention, what We claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A series of feed-boxes suspended upon lines 0 U by means of the eyes aor hooks b, projecting from the ends of the boxes, substantially as andfor the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we affix oursignatures in presence of two witnesses.

- WM. M. WALTON.

JOSEPH J. WALTON.

Witnesses:

U. H. WATSON, WM. B. UPPERMAN.

